Oil may be seeping
from Deepwater Horizon site 13 Dec
2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of
a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new
oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in
2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estimated 206 million gallons of
oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for three months before it was capped. In
September, a new oil sheen was spotted about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
Tests confirmed the oil came from the infamous Macondo well underneath the
Deepwater Horizon. BP's underwater vehicle observed oil seeping from the well's
containment dome and, after a remote operation, [lied and] declared the leaks
plugged on October 23. More oil continues to surface.
Leaking barge
spilling fuel oil into New York waters 15 Dec 2012 A barge with a leaking cargo tank spilled fuel oil into
a New York City waterway on Saturday, officials said. The barge was carrying
112,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil, but it was unclear how much oil spilled into
the water, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement. The spill came from a
Boston Marine Transport Inc barge due to a leak from its cargo tank, it
said.
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